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Can Haris Sohail make a comeback to the Pakistan team?

After an extended time out due to an injury (and subsequent mismanagement of the recovery), Haris finally seems to have recovered. He played for NCA XI against Malaysia today and performed well with a century and three wickets.

Will he eventually be able to make a comeback to the Pakistan team? Will his body be able to withstand the rigours of international cricket?

any player who performs can play in the national team, unless your name is fawad alam or sadaf hussain - as long as you dont do better than everyone else in the country, you can play it seems.

whats the purpose of this thread, isnt this just blatantly obvious? malaysia is nothing to get excited about, id bet half the 15 year olds writing on this board could hit a century and take three wickets against them. lets see how he does against some more serious competition.

any player who performs can play in the national team, unless your name is fawad alam or sadaf hussain - as long as you dont do better than everyone else in the country, you can play it seems.

whats the purpose of this thread, isnt this just blatantly obvious? malaysia is nothing to get excited about, id bet half the 15 year olds writing on this board could hit a century and take three wickets against them. lets see how he does against some more serious competition.

No one is getting excited because he made a few runs against Malaysia, the point is that he had the fitness to play the match, and play a long innings, and bowl as well.

After an extended time out due to an injury (and subsequent mismanagement of the recovery), Haris finally seems to have recovered. He played for NCA XI against Malaysia today and performed well with a century and three wickets.

Will he eventually be able to make a comeback to the Pakistan team? Will his body be able to withstand the rigours of international cricket?

Yes - I would rather play Haris than Hafeez or even Malik.

Better batsman than both and about just as good as a bowler as Malik and a non-chucking Hafeez.

He performed well in his short time carrier and he is the future of Pakistan as he has the ability to score runs and maneuver the score along with handy bowler. Needs to improve his fitness and a bot camp before selected for the international team.

Too much hype. The guy is almost 30 I believe. I won't buy into the hype. We all know how previous 'future ATG's' panned out.

First of all Haris just turned 28. Even if He is 30 so what's the problem ?

This is Younis Khan's Test Record after turning 30 on 29th november 2003

So say if Haris plays 40 Tests stays fit, performs and averages 45 or 50 so ? That would be handy. Isn't it ?

Certainly if he played 40 Tests he won't be in contention for being an ATG.

Yes Haris has had poor fitness, might be from birth just like Shoaib, Kaneria etc but He is hyped because when he Averaged 52 playing mostly at number 4 in Fc Cricket in a similar sample set or comparable sample set No FC batsman who batted in Top 4 even Averaged 45 and the highest Averaging batsman with comparable rate of Century making was Naeemuddin opener who averaged 41 at that time.

Whatever hype there is around is also justified because Haris did impress in International Cricket aswell. Mostly whenever he faultered with the bat fitness was the issue. Temperature wise, reading match situation and strike rotation was far better than other Int team mates. Only weakness was Short ball and running out of gas after 30's and 40's hence getting out making wrong choices due to fitness deficiencies.

If He gets grip over his fitness issues than He has every probability in his favour to succeed in Int Cricket.

Just select this guy now . He is world class. Solid performance today once again. Key is that his strike rate never went below 80 from the time he scored the first run.

Wrong info. He scored ith the strike rate of less than 80 before he got to 50 and picked up his strike rate. I watched his innings, if someone else had scored that way, it would have bee labeled a selfish innings, but since it's golden boy Harris everyone is so excited he scored some runs.

World Class batsman in your opinion?! yeah right, the guy who failed in 3 out of 5 innings in the under 23 emerging cup last month, just scored 2 extremely tuk tuk fifties to show that he's not ready fo the team.

Wrong info. He scored ith the strike rate of less than 80 before he got to 50 and picked up his strike rate. I watched his innings, if someone else had scored that way, it would have bee labeled a selfish innings, but since it's golden boy Harris everyone is so excited he scored some runs.

World Class batsman in your opinion?! yeah right, the guy who failed in 3 out of 5 innings in the under 23 emerging cup last month, just scored 2 extremely tuk tuk fifties to show that he's not ready fo the team.

Wrong info. He scored ith the strike rate of less than 80 before he got to 50 and picked up his strike rate. I watched his innings, if someone else had scored that way, it would have bee labeled a selfish innings, but since it's golden boy Harris everyone is so excited he scored some runs.

World Class batsman in your opinion?! yeah right, the guy who failed in 3 out of 5 innings in the under 23 emerging cup last month, just scored 2 extremely tuk tuk fifties to show that he's not ready fo the team.

He needs to play a full season of domestic to make a comeback.

Not really. What was his strike rate when he scored 50?

I believe his strike rate was close to 80 throughout the innings and generally in the 80-85 range.

Now he's playing selfishly, only dots and singles to get his maiden 100, instead of hitting some shots for the team in the last 10 overs. If it was someone else everyone would have roasted him to death

Now he's playing selfishly, only dots and singles to get his maiden 100, instead of hitting some shots for the team in the last 10 overs. If it was someone else everyone would have roasted him to death

Yes because no one in the world slows down in 90s isnt it? And he hasnt slowed down to a cancerous level like ahmad shehzad, hafeez or fawad alam does usually.

He isn't that fluent right now but will get more fluent as heyjos plays more cricket.

Also needs to direct short ball issues.

The short ball issue is related to his stance. He crouched too low and his head way outside off-stump. He is likely to miss line of the ahortball and can be picked up at fine leg or short leg. All of this is theorterical of course. When (if) he plays international cricket we will see if this is really an issue that's exploited or not.

Bro, I dont have a habit of over hyping players if you have seen my posts here. But i see this guy serving Pakistan well. Much much better than the TTFs in the team and in line with modern day cricket.

AND if selected for tests, He will be the backbone of Pakistani team especially overseas.

As long as he is fit enough he should be selected. We need a left hander in the middle order. Stacking our batting line up with right handers makes our batting line up predictable and a bowler doesn't need to change too much as he is bowling to a right hander consistently.

Bowling to a left hand/ right hand combination will disrupt tthe bowlers a bit.

About 12-13 if I count correctly. Huge difference. I'm not claiming Fawad is a better ODI player. I was injecting some skepticism into the claim that he cannot keep the scoreboard ticking. His last innings suggests that to the contrary, once wickets stop falling around him and he decided to switch gears, it may be almost impossible to keep him from taking singles. Again, in ten overs not a single dot ball. He went at SR 150+ for his last 60 balls.

About 12-13 if I count correctly. Huge difference. I'm not claiming Fawad is a better ODI player. I was injecting some skepticism into the claim that he cannot keep the scoreboard ticking. His last innings suggests that to the contrary, once wickets stop falling around him and he decided to switch gears, it may be almost impossible to keep him from taking singles. Again, in ten overs not a single dot ball. He went at SR 150+ for his last 60 balls.

Okay 10-12 dots is a huge difference i agree. But you have to see that one was setting a target and other was chasing a target when reqd. rate was increasing. Taking singles is absolutely crucial and I have no doubt that fawad is the better strike rotator. but singles alone dont win matches when chasing stiff targets. Fawad has massive limitations when trying to slog fast bowlers and his limitations have been time and again exposed in the international circuit. He has played more than 50 matches and we have seen enough of it. He needs hitters around him so that he could play the way he does. But then again, you already have a 22 year old babar azam playing the same role for you. Haris looks more compact than fawad and has a better hitting technique and i would back him hit a boundary when required. I cannot say the same for fawad.

Fawad should be in the test side. He is hard to get out and he can be useful in tests. In LOIs , he is a no no.

Totally agreed. Is Pakistan looking to score near 300 or 300 on regular basis then this will be really good. I am just trying to say we don't have big hitters in the team. Who came on the crease and score 25,30 ball 50 or 50,60 ball 100. So we need to find out those players.

As long as he is fit enough he should be selected. We need a left hander in the middle order. Stacking our batting line up with right handers makes our batting line up predictable and a bowler doesn't need to change too much as he is bowling to a right hander consistently.

Bowling to a left hand/ right hand combination will disrupt tthe bowlers a bit.

pak is not very wise to think this way... so they dont have to bother..

What do you mean by over 100 on a regular basis? Not even ABDV manages more than 100 *on average* in ODIs? Warner is 96.

they are delusional... they want batsmen whose SR is 100+ from 1-11, thanks for mentioning Warner and abdv, i would like to add smith/kohli/kane to the list ... 80-90 for a middle order with an avg of 40-50 then it is very good... and SR OF 85+ and avg close to 50 or 48+ should be excellent... having two batsmen of this kind is nearly enough to solve batting issues..